Friday, December 21, 2012

Why I Haven't Done Any Christmas Shopping Yet!




On Friday, December 21, 2012, according to the Mayan Calendar, the world is coming to an end. That's before December 25. Hence my dilemma. At the website, December212012.com, there are a number of helpful hints about what to do during the coming apocalypse. You could go to a Mayan temple and hang out and wait for the festivities to start.








You could start working on your survival skills and building your underground rescue bunker:




I think a survival seed kit would be helpful for when you come out of the bunker. You can't be sure of the form of the destruction - this time it probably won't be the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.  There are numerous doomsday scenarios: powerful earthquakes, a super volcano at Yellowstone National Park, economic and social collapse, nuclear fallout or a solar storm that destroys satellites and electrical grids. Any of those would be easier to take if you had jumbo seed packets of radishes and broccoli ready to go when you come out of the bunker in 2025.  That would keep me going through 10 years of lava flows and nuclear fallout. Mmmm! Broccoli!

Maybe you need the deluxe two person survival kit. It's currently out of stock, but could be shipped to you as early as next week.  Oh, no!

If you feel a little out of your depth, there are lots of helpful hints, like 37 Things You Should Start Hoarding Now Two Months Ago.

 Luckily Phil Plait, who writes the Bad Astronomy blog for Slate Magazine, has kept those of us who don't get our science from the History Channel or Fox News up to date on what's going on.  "Welcome to the Mayan Notpocalypse", he writes, and proceeds to explain in depth why each of the favored methods of destruction are not going to happen. So it seems that I have a busy Saturday, being out there with all the nutbags who thought the world would end before Christmas.

Ah, Science! Once again people ignore you and then end up looking like monumental whack-jobs to everyone around them. And I'm just talking about the House of Representatives Science Committee.

See you tomorrow.